23-24.01.22

PM Modi: Haryana has done commendable work in Aspirational District Programme

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while praising the Institutional Delivery System in Mewat (Nuh) district of Haryana, said that when this district was included in the list of Aspirational Districts in 2018, the rate of Institutional Delivery was 50.61 percent and through the continuous efforts of the , it has increased to 92.2 percent which is a matter of pride for the state government and the administration.

Modi, on Saturday, took the review meeting of the Aspirational District Programme in which Chief Ministers of various states, Lieutenant Governors, Secretaries of various Ministries, State Ministers and

District Commissioners directly interacted with the Prime Minister through video conferencing.

Aspirational District Programme was implemented to develop better Health and Nutrition, Education, Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and Resources“>Water Resources, Financial Inclusion, Skill development and other basic facilities for the citizens so that all round development of selected districts can be achieved.

The PM also praised the government for working to give global identity to the district Nuh of the State and vision of promoting One District-One Product scheme based on the speciality of each district.

5 crop varieties developed by farm university experts notified

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Five new crop varieties developed by scientists of CSK HP Agricultural University have been notified in the Gazette of India.

Vice-Chancellor HK Chaudhary, while addressing mediapersons here today, said that the varieties notified were Him Palam Maize Composite-1, Him Palam Gobhi Sarson-1, Him Palam White Clover-1, Him Palam Hara Soya-1 (soybean) and Trombay Him Palam Mustard-1.

Mobile vans to develop reading habits among students

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In order to compensate for the loss of studies of students due to the corona pandemic especially in rural areas, the State Education department has decided to roll out mobile reading vans. These mobile vans will be like mini libraries having books, magazines for all age groups of students. The Jharkhand Education Project Council (JEPC) will run these mobile vans as a campaign for 100 days. The focus areas of these mobile vans will be educationally backward areas where the students have failed to connect digitally with various educational TEACHING provided by JEPC.

The Jharkhand Education Project Council has issued a guideline for mobile chariots. JEPC’s State Project Director Kiran Kumari Pasi has directed all the districts that in the era of Covid pandemic, the areas where children have been deprived of education, these reading chariots will move. In an area the vans will move for two to three hours. During this time, the children of the area will come there and will be able to study. The logo of the and the banner of the reading campaign will be displayed in these vans. It has also been directed that with each van, there will be two volunteers and a teacher who will motivate students for availing the facilities.

From these vans children will be issued instructions through loudspeakers. The jobs of volunteers and teachers will also to clear the query of students regarding their studies. The JEPC has also issued directions that all Covid protocols should be followed during the movement of these vans.

Manjusha painting to be displayed at Rajpath

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The indigenous visual art form of Bhagalpur-Manjusha painting-will be displayed at Rajpath during the Republic Day celebration in New Delhi, deputy collector Manish Kumar said.
The 16-metre long art work is painted by Manoj Pandit and his disciple Aman Sagar. Manoj is considered an icon of the art form.

According to sources, the painting was prepared at an art workshop organised at Bhubaneshwar by the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, a wing of the Union ministry of culture in collaboration with Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) and Kalinga Institute of Social Science (KISS) in December 2021. The workshop was a part of ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ programme and intended to celebrate the heroics and struggles of the unsung freedom fighters of Indian national movement.

To attract tourists and promote adventure tourism, the first adventure park of Bastar division is being developed on the bank of river Dankini in Chhattisgarhs Dantewada district.

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The Dantewada District Administration in collaboration with the Forest Department is developing the park using funds of the District Mineral Foundation Trust.

Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel said the park will prove to be a milestone in the field of tourism development of Dantewada, an official Communication said on Thursday.

Various fun-filled adventurous activities including zip line, cycle zip line, adventure swing, Burma Bridge and adventure Sports for kids are being developed.

There will be sports coaches and adventure sports experts to provide latest information at the park.

Similarly, the tourism facilities are being expanded in popular and vital tourist spots in and around Dantewada district.

A 10th century Lord Ganesh idol, located atop the Dholkal hill in Dantewada, will also get a facelift with better food and accommodation facilities.

The plan is to provide local traditional style accommodation and through Gadhkalewa– a traditional style restaurant serving ethnic food.

New pilgrimage in Madhya Pradesh on the lines of Andaman in memory of martyrs

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Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhans announcement regarding development of museum in the memory of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose in Central Jail Jabalpur and opening of Netajis barracks for public viewing will be implemented on Sunday, on his 125th birth anniversary. For this, necessary preparations have been completed in Jabalpur. On two days a week, the general public will be able to see the chamber of Subhash Chandra Bose, where he was imprisoned.

It may be mentioned that in the year 2007, Chief Minister Chouhan had named Jabalpur Jail after Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. Along with this, the initiative of construction and development of the monument was also started here.

Just as the Cellular Jail in Andaman and Nicobar has been developed as Veer Savarkar Memorial, similarly many works have been done under a concrete initiative to develop Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Jail of Jabalpur as a Prerak Sthal. Among these, items such as Netajis clothes, shackles worn by him, his handwritten letters and inscriptions related to his jail visit have been given the form of a museum.

In this regard, with the initiative of the Madhya Pradesh government, this will be the first Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose museum in the state and the second in the country. Citizens will not have to pay any charges to visit the museum and the prison cell of Netaji. A museum has been established in New Delhi in the memory of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose since 2019.

Netaji Subhash Chandra Boses statue has been installed near the newly constructed Subhash Nagar RAILWAY Over Bridge in Bhopal. Along with this, the play I am Subhash is also being staged in Shaheed Bhawan in collaboration with the Department of Culture in Bhopal.

Gujarat: Cotton yield estimate drops to 92 lakh bales

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Gujaratsproduction is estimated to be about 92 lakh bales for the cotton season of 2021-22, according to the latest crop estimates released by theCotton Association of India(CAI).

The apex cotton trade bodys Decemberestimate for the production in Gujarat is 5 lakh bales (one bale is equivalent to 170kg) less than around 97 lakh bales output predicted in its November estimate. The states production stood at 91.5 lakh bales in 2020-21. Close to 34 lakh bales have already arrived in local mandis of Gujarat, the association said.

For pan-India, CAI has reduced its cotton crop estimate for the 2021-22 season by 12 lakh bales to 348 lakh bales from its previous estimate of 360 lakh bales.

Ramgarh Vishdhari Wildlife Sanctuary set to be notified as 4th tiger reserve of Rajasthan

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Ramgarh Vishdhari Wildlife Sanctuary, which is among the proposed five sites in the country, is expected to be formally notified astiger reserve(TR) soon before the Global Tiger Summit, which is to be held at Vladivostok, Russia.

The Centre also announced the development during the 4th Asia ministerial conference on tiger conservation. It was said that the Centre has already given its approval of granting tiger reserve status toRamgarh Vishdhari WildlifeSanctuary, along with MM Hills in Karnataka, Guru Ghasidas in Chhattisgarh.

The total area of 1,017 sqkm that has been identified as the reserve area comprising two forest blocks of Bhilwara, territorial forest block of Bundi and Indargarh, which fall under buffer zone of Ranthambore Tiger Reserve (RTR).

After Independence, these forests came under the control of Rajasthan government. In 1982, a part of the forest was declared as Ramgarh Vishdhari Wildlife Sanctuary under Section 5 of the Rajasthan Wild Animals and Birds Protection Act, 1951. The core area of the Ramgarh Vishdhari has eight villages. The sanctuary has leopards, sambhars, chitals, wildboars, etc.

Digital Government Mission

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The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology established the Digital Government Mission.

Highlights:

The mission will provide citizens with government Services. The services will be delivered using machine Learning and .

It incorporates automated processes. For example, a student applying for a Scholarship will receive an alert directly from the relevant department.

He or she is not required to inquire. It also makes food grains available to the public through the Public Distribution System.

It includes driver license renewals as well as reminders to renew government-issued documents.

The mission seeks to provide benefits to citizens before they inquire about a scheme or subsidiary.

First Milk Village Of J&K – Jerri Hamlet

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Jerri settlement in Reasi district was designated as the Union Territory’s first ‘Milk Village,’ with 57 additional farms sanctioned under the Integrated Dairy Development Scheme (IDDS) for the hamlet.

The administration of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has designated Jerri settlement in Reasi district as the first ‘Milk Village’ of the Union Territory.

It was Also officially recognized 57 more dairy farms for the hamlet under the Integrated Dairy Development Scheme (IDDS).

The village, which has 73 individual dairy units and 370 cows, will provide financial security to the local farmers.

Following the village’s designation as a ‘Milk Village,’ a total of 57 units have indeed been approved under the IDDS.

Under the IDDS, dairy units with five animals receive a 50% subsidy.